[mcletuan]

Hello:

Please help me with some directions on how to read and understand this first sentence of an LSAT passage for the reading comprehension section. I read this sentence a few times and I had no idea what the author wants to say. I think my difficulties for understanding this are the use of words and the sentence construction.

"The nub of the restorationist critique of preservationism
is the claim that it rests on an unhealthy dualism that
conceives nature and humankind as radically distinct and
opposed to each other."

Tuan